Legal Name
One's given name at birth including a first name, a possible middle name, and a surname. The legal name must be used to legally sign documents, deeds, or contracts.
Popular Real Estate Terms
The continued and illegal occupancy of property after a legal period of occupancy has expired. In an estate at sufferance the tenant occupies the property at the sufferance of property ...
Land that has poor income potential, usually used in an agricultural sense meaning that the land is untellable, has poor access, is extremely steep, has suffered serious erosion, is ...
Defendants legal objection to the prima facie sufficiency of a judicial pleading. It is a motion to dismiss an action on the ground there is no apparent equity violation, the court has no ...
A clause that may be inserted in a listing agreement stating no commission will be paid to the broker until the property title has actually been transferred. Normally, willing and able ...
“What is Rent Control?”, you ask.Rent Control is how some governmental policies that prevent the Landlord from abusively raising the rent are called in the real estate ...
Person who will become the beneficiary if the original beneficiary dies before the insured. It is the policyholder's second election as beneficiary, dependent on the status of the primary ...
The term collusion may make you think about colluding from the start, and you wouldn’t be far from the truth. The definition of collusion is a secret, non-competitive, and, at times, ...
Availability of land in an urban area. ...
An estate which descends to heirs in perpetuum. In an estate of inheritance, the current tenant not only has the right to enjoy the property for life, buy his or her tenancy rights pass to ...
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